Payment for Quality

Title:	Quality Incentives in Medicare: MedPAC Recommendations
Date:	9/20/2003
Presenter:	Karen Milgate, MedPAC
Description:	PowerPoint presentation describing the findings from MedPAC’s private sector interviews, barriers to implementing private sector models in Medicare, and the Commissions discussion and recommendations for implementing incentives in Medicare.
Keywords:	Medicare, MedPAC, recommendations for provider incentives, health system
Title:	Demonstration Projects Designed to Provide Rewards and Incentives for Providers
Date:	9/20/2003
Presenter:	Jonathan Jonathan Conklin, MEDSTAT and Stuart Guterman, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Description:	PowerPoint presentation describing the various approaches and actions taken by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Includes specific details on the Bridges to Excellence program.
Keywords:	CMS, Medicare beneficiaries, Medicare demonstrations, Bridges to Excellence program, information technology, physician office, outpatient, incentives
Title:	Bridges to Excellence
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenter:	Dale Whitney, Corporate Health Care Manager, United Parcel Service
Description:	Powerpoint presentation providing a detailed overview of the Bridges to Excellence project, a not-for-profit collaboration between employers, health care providers, and health plans that focuses on providing incentives that improve quality of care within the physician office setting. Includes review of outcomes of pilot marketing and analysis of success factors.
Keywords:	Health information technology, HIT, physician’s office, quality improvement, incentives, NCQA Physician Recognition Measures, performance measures
Title:	Incentives for HIT: A National Perspective
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenter:	Francois de Brantes, Program Leader, Health Care Initiatives, General Electric Co.
Description:	Powerpoint presentation overviewing various HIT incentive initiatives that seek to encourage quality improvement through the adoption of improved information technologies. Describes the principles upon which they are based, and the relationship of these principles to the Parallel Pathways program of the eHealth Initiative.
Keywords:	Health information technology, HIT, quality improvement, incentive measures, P4P
Title:	Accelerating HIT Adoption: A View of the NHIN
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenter:	Francois de Brantes, Program Leader, Health Care Initiatives, General Electric Co.
Description:	Powerpoint presentation briefly describing the initial stages of project development under the National Group for the Advancement of HIT, and the proposed common framework capturing technical standards, policy standards, and performance measurement.
Keywords:	Health information technology, HIT, quality improvement, performance measures, standards, common framework
Title:	Aligning Incentives with Quality and Health Information Technology: Parallel Pathways for Quality Healthcare
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenters:	John Glaser, PhD, Vice President and CIO, Partners Healthcare; Francois de Brantes, Program Leader, Health Care Initiatives, General Electric Co.
Description:	Powerpoint presentation introducing the eHealth Initiative’s Parallel Pathways for Quality Healthcare framework, as part of a multi-stakeholder panel session during the 2 nd Annual Connecting Communities for Better Health Annual Learning Forum in 2005. Describes how the framework seeks to align incentives to adopt HIT with quality capabilities, physician HIT capabilities, and health information exchange capabilities.
Keywords:	Health information technology, health information exchange, HIT, HIE, quality, incentives, physician practice
Title:	Financing and Incentives for Community Health Information Exchange: Rewarding and Supporting Population Health
Date:	5/26/2005
Presenters:	Jonathan P. Weiner, DPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Description:	Powerpoint presentation describing the interrelationship between population health data, the development of effective health information exchange systems, and effective financial incentives for the adoption of health information technology. Includes reference to other national structures ( UK, Canada ) that could provide models for improving the infrastructure within the US.
Keywords:	Population health, health information exchange, HIT, pay for performance, P4P, e-indicators, information infrastructure, financial sustainability